Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the commonest ills of man, ranking close to constipation and headaches, is the wide range of supposed digestive upsets mistakenly described as "acid indigestion." Every day, millions of Americans complain of "heartburn" or "sour stomach." TV commercials spiel endlessly about "acid upset." Some sufferers try to dignify their complaints with such technical terms as hyperacidity and acidosis. By whatever name, the problem is a high-up bellyache, and those who suffer from it in the U.S. lay out $90 million each year for antacids and alkalizers...
...whom faith is simply a comfortably furnished apartment of the mind. Inevitably, too, there is a "renewal backlash" of Catholics who like the church the way they find it, and look upon its unchanging doctrines and structures as pillars of security in an age of flux. Such ecclesiastical conservatives complain that Mass in English will turn them into "Bapto-Catholics," and look upon the church's denunciation of contraception as a sign of strength rather than rigidity. "I left the Baptist Church for Roman Catholicism, and now it is being dismantled all around me," says one Denver housewife...
Cushing works so hard at raising money that some laymen complain he thinks of nothing else. His capacity for work especially astonishes his doctor, since he suffers from asthma, emphysema, ulcers and migraine headaches, has had operations to remove a cancerous kidney and the prostate gland. He eats lightly ("I have to-I bleed"), sleeps with an oxygen tank beside his bed. "It is the wolf that keeps me on the go," he explains, "particularly the wolf at someone else's door...
Show business entrepreneurs complain bitterly that Fair Corp. President Robert Moses seems indifferent to their problems, as when he said recently: "The collapse of a few amusement ventures has been grossly exaggerated." Their backers, who lost some $7,000,000, were not so philosophical. Said one showman: "How does Moses gauge the success of the fair? Well, he's paying off the bondholders, but at our expense. They won't help us, and they won't let us help ourselves...
...course one shouldn't complain; we are lucky to have the poverty bill at all, however maligned by Republicans, however decimated by Southerners, however compromised by the Administration. After all, that is--as they say--baseball...